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Leung lab interacted with Hong Kong collaborators

In May 2017, the Leung lab visited several collaborating groups in Asia and shared with them our research vision on using zebrafish to find new drugs for retinal degeneration. In this blog post, we will share some pictures of our visit to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) at the Chinese University of […]

Leung Lab attended the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting

Logan Ganzen and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Baltimore, MD from 2017-05-07 to 05-11. Logan presented a poster entitled “Visual Motor Response of a Transgenic Retinitis Pigmentosa Zebrafish Model”. They also attended several events to meet fellow researchers over the world. […]

Leung Lab participated in the 2017 Purdue Spring Fest

On 2017-04-08, Prahatha Venkatraman, Logan Ganzen, and Khaled Noui-Mehidi demonstrated zebrafish research in the 2017 Purdue Spring Fest.

Leung Lab presented at the 132nd Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science

On 2016-03-25, Khaled Noui-Mehidi presented his research at the 131st Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. Emre Coskun attended the meeting. They were supervised by graduate student Logan Ganzen.  

Leung Lab participated at the 2016 Purdue Spring Fest

On 2016-04-16 – 17, Prahatha Venkatraman, Logan Ganzen, Paige Cassidy, Khaled Noui-Mehidi and Menna Hassan demonstrated zebrafish research in 2016 Purdue Spring Fest.    

Purdue University Undergraduate Research Symposium

On 2016-04-12, Paige Cassidy presented her research work at the Purdue University Undergraduate Research Symposium. She was supervised by Prahatha Venkatraman, a graduate student in the laboratory and a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for Future Fellow.

Sylvia Bonilla’s defense and celebration party

On 2016-04-11, Sylvia Bonilla defended her thesis and graduated.  

Leung Lab presented at the 131st Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science

On 2016-03-26, Menna Hassan, Patrick Tiffany, Ryan Wyer and Khaled Noui-Mehidi presented their research at the 131st Annual Academy Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. They were supervised by graduate students Prahatha Venkatraman and Logan Ganzen.    

Menna participated in the Lafayette Regional Science & Engineering Fair!

Menna Hassan participated in the Lafayette Regional Science & Engineering Fair and won two awards: (1) a bronze medal under the Animal Science category in the Seniors division, and (2) a blue ribbon. Congratulations! By winning the latter award, she is ranked in the top ten students of the Fair and has been invited to […]

A random afternoon in the lab…